Jane Austen Quotes
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language – a something between compliments and – and love – to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
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We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
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Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.
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The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.
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Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.
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You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart...
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
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The Webbs are really gone! When I saw the waggons at the door, and thought of all the trouble they must have in moving, I began to reproach myself for not having liked them better, but since the waggons have disappeared my conscience has been closed again, and I am excessively glad they are gone.
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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
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it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.